(Nahum) Streisand (1874–1878), Aron J. Messing (1878–1890), Meyer Solomon Levy (1890–1916), Herman Lissauer (1916–1926), and Elliot M. Burstein (1927–1969).

In 1869, he emigrated to the United States, where he served as rabbi of New York City's (then) Orthodox Congregation Shaare Zedek.

[14] He emigrated to the United States in 1866, to serve as rabbi of New York City's Beth Israel Bikur Cholim.

[14][b] In 1870 he moved to San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel, but could not convince the members to become Orthodox, and returned to Chicago three years later.

Beth Israel was considered a "Polish" congregation at the time, but had many German-Jewish members, and Messing gave his sermons in German.

[16]: 75  Myer Solomon had been ordained in England as an Orthodox rabbi before he was twenty, and moved to Australia as a young man.

[8]: 212–213 Joseph Rabinowitz joined Beth Israel as cantor the year the synagogue building at 1411 Geary Street was constructed.

Known as the Geary Street Temple, it was "the most visible symbol of traditional Judaism in the city for more than half a century".

[8]: 212–213 Herman Lissauer succeeded Levy as rabbi in 1916,[6]: 63 [9] the year he graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA).

[20] Lissauer would serve until 1926, then move to San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El, and subsequently become head of the Warner Bros. Research Department.

[23] Lissauer was succeeded in 1927 by Elliot M. (Maurice) Burstein, who would remain rabbi at Beth Israel for over four decades.

[8]: 320  Reichert had formerly served as rabbi of Tremont Temple/Scarsdale Synagogue in the Bronx from 1923 to 1930, and San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El from 1930 to 1947, before retiring from the pulpit at age 53.

Born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1930, Morris's first rabbinic position had been two years as a chaplain with the United States Navy in Japan in 1956.

[24] The year after Morris joined, Temple Judea sold some of the still-undeveloped land on Brotherhood Way to the Jewish Community Center.

[2] In 1969 the Congregation Beth Israel and Temple Judea merged, after three major potential impediments were resolved: the synagogue would have a "restricted kosher kitchen", Temple Judea's Friday night Torah readings would continue, and the rabbi would still perform intermarriages.

[6]: 63  The Geary Street Temple eventually became derelict, but was purchased in the late 1980s and renovated by designer Tony Duquette.

Morris created a new High Holy Day prayerbook for the congregation "combining liturgy of the Reform and Conservative movements".

He created a Bar and Bat Mitzvah program for adults, and was a "firm supporter of women's causes [and] civil rights".

[11] Goodman had previously served as rabbi of Beth El in San Mateo, California for five and a half years.